{"id":698,"date":"2009-08-18T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2009-08-18T11:04:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T16:04:36","slug":"time-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/time-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commandment #5, \u201cWake Up Early\u2014Be Early,\u201d means making the most of the time you\u2019ve got. That means starting your career early, starting your day early\u2014and showing up for your meetings early. Fully 98 percent of the RMITs cited the ability to show up, and show up on time, as integral to their success. I saw this first-hand: <strong>Dennis Albaugh<\/strong>, famous within his company for saying, \u201cNothing is beneath me or beyond me,\u201d was a typical example. When we set a phone appointment for our first interview, he called two minutes early. He respects his time and he respects the time of others. And having wrangled multiple interviews with a hundred RMITs in the course of researching and writing <em>The Richest Man in Town,<\/em> I can tell you emphatically\u2014I really, <em>really<\/em> respect that. Perhaps the most important lesson to be taken from the fifth commandment is this: Your time is precious\u2014and so is everybody else\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p> Albany RMIT <strong>Karthik Bala<\/strong>, who cofounded video-game sensation <strong>Vicarious Visions<\/strong> with his brother <strong>Guha<\/strong>, told me, \u201cNothing is more destructive to one\u2019s personal success than the inability to be on time because it sends a powerful statement of arrogance, self-absorption, and disrespect to those with whom you are meeting.\u201d It may not seem like a big deal to be ten minutes late for a meeting, but people who share their time with you are giving you something of great value, and by not taking that gift seriously, you devalue both their time and your own. The more you become addicted to ambition and make the most of every minute, the more you\u2019ll come to realize how much you can accomplish in those ten minutes. But then, once you\u2019ve considered all you could accomplish in those ten lost minutes\u2014a phone call made, an e-mail sent, a blog post started\u2014multiply that by everyone waiting at the table. You\u2019ll come up with a remarkable sum of opportunity that\u2019s going to waste. Each person has lost ten minutes of precious time, but in those ten minutes, you\u2019ve lost an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commandment #5, \u201cWake Up Early\u2014Be Early,\u201d means making the most of the time you\u2019ve got. That means starting your career early, starting your day early\u2014and showing up for your meetings early. Fully 98 percent of the RMITs cited the ability to show up, and show up on time, as integral to their success. I saw this first-hand: <strong>Dennis Albaugh<\/strong>, famous within his company for saying, \u201cNothing is beneath me or beyond me,\u201d was a typical example. When we set a phone appointment for our first interview, he called two minutes early. He respects his time and he respects the time of others. And having wrangled multiple interviews with a hundred RMITs in the course of researching and writing <em>The Richest Man in Town,<\/em> I can tell you emphatically\u2014I really, <em>really<\/em> respect that. Perhaps the most important lesson to be taken from the fifth commandment is this: Your time is precious\u2014and so is everybody else\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[268,153,157],"tags":[224,280,279,282,281],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.richestmanintown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}